Restore long term protection when short term protection expires (Community Wishlist/W42)

Description

When temporarily raising the protection level of a page the original protection and duration is not restored after the elevated protection expires. The page should revert to the original protection level.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

System change

Tags

Admins and stewards

Affected users

Administrators, editors and readers dealing with disruptive editing

Phabricator tasks

T142209

Other details

Created: 22:47, 23 July 2024
Last updated: 19:24, 10 October 2025
Author: ScottishFinnishRadish (talk)

Voting

This wish currently has 3 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish

Support Pppery (talk) 16:47, 10 October 2025

Support Femke (talk) 19:23, 10 October 2025

Support Similarly for short-term lowering of protection (e.g. where Commons gives someone a window to upload an improved version of a normally highly protected file). Jmabel (talk) 06:09, 5 December 2025